Recently I had the opportunity to do a job swap with one of the guys in the laboratory here at HSL. I helped out with the mass-spectrometry and James helped me with the data analysis. Two very useful things came out of this. Firstly, it’s been very informative to see how the data I get 
During the first part of our meeting, Nicolas Christou gave an introduction of statistical finance in R, and presented a package he co-authored with previous PhD student David Diez (2010). Video of the talk is below: During the second part, … Continue reading →
Mean reverting strategies are beating on mean reversion of the prices. There are various flavors of mean reverting strategies, but as a proxy I chose RSI(2). You can find many entries on blogosphere about this strategy, but nowadays its popularity dried up. What made me wondering is that there was an idea about correlation between return
Brian announced it on r-help and r-sig-finance and I have since updated the R/Finance website and Call for Papers page. And as David Smith already outblogged me about it, without further ado our Call for Paper for next spring's R/Finance conference: ...
Brian announced it on r-help and r-sig-finance and I have since updated the R/Finance website and Call for Papers page. And as David Smith already outblogged me about it, without further ado our Call for Paper for next spring's R/Finance conference: ...
Brian announced it on r-help and r-sig-finance and I have since updated the R/Finance website and Call for Papers page. And as David Smith already outblogged me about it, without further ado our Call for Paper for next spring's R/Finance conference: ...
Held annually in Chicago, R/Finance is the conference for R users in the financial services industry. This year's conference included presentations from practitioners and researchers at institutions like Invesco Asset Management, Black Mesa Capital, and some of the leading academic institutions from around the world. Next year's conference, to be held 29-30 April 2011, could include you. If you're...
A few months ago I switched my laptop from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. I had been connecting to my corporate SQL Server database using RODBC on Windows so I attempted to get ODBC connectivity up and running on Ubuntu. ODBC on Ubuntu turned into an exercise in futility. I spent many hours over many days
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
